Adobe fallout ?

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Hi folks,
    Though not pertaining to UK law per se, perhaps a somewhat dangerous
precedent being set for non US citizens visiting their country ?   Or
kneejerk reaction ?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/20575.html
Andrew Orlowski andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk

Angry users were getting ready to lay siege to Adobe's San Jose HQ this
morning, one of several rallies around the United States in protest at the
arrest of Russian cryptographer Dmitry Skylarov.

Skylarov demonstrated the feeble 'security' in Adobe's eBook file format at
DefCon in Las Vegas last week, and found himself arrested under the US DMCA
(Digital Millenium Copyright Act). Skylarov's employer develops a version
that circumvents the encryption on Adobe eBooks for the benefit of partially
sighted computers, but only works on paid-for eBooks. So it's difficult to
see what Adobe is losing here, except for its ability to rob the blind.
Literally.

Linux kernel developer Alan Cox resigned his Usenix post at the weekend,
urging non-US companies to boycott events in the land of the free until the
draconian DMCA is repealed.

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